A group of fossils of elasmosaurs—some of the most famous in North America—have just been formally identified as belonging to ...

Before British Columbia fossil hunter Mike Trask died last week, he knew that recognition of his biggest discovery would live ...

Newly discovered evidence of Australia's earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and ...

A new study suggests two fossil trackways found in Australia were made by an early amniote, a group that today includes ...

For the first time, a giant alatoconchid bivalve fossil has been discovered by researchers in Central China's Hubei Province, ...

A fossil of a butterfly now believed extinct that was discovered in western Japan 37 years ago has been identified as that of a new species of the insect.

Fossil tracks found in Australia push the origin of reptiles back by 40 million years, altering the timeline of tetrapod ...

A fossil-hunting father-daughter team from Vancouver Island has been recognized in the naming of a new genus of giant ...

Today, tegus are considered invasive creatures in Florida, but a new paper suggests they’ve lived in the southeastern United ...

A Chicago fossil of Archaeopteryx uncovers unknown features, supporting theories of bird evolution from dinosaurs and highlighting its unique flight adaptations.

Led by Uppsala & Flinders universities, the study published in Nature credits citizen science for the find & suggests ...